There’s been a lot of hype about how the internet is killing newspapers. Armed with two recent headlines from the Lansing State Journal, I must ask: is this actually a bad thing? I mean, think of the rigorous standards leading …
I’m learning! I created this image in Illustrator, using this tutorial as a guide. Not bad, considering it’s the first thing I’ve ever done in Illustrator, unless you count me using it to trace images to create my banners.
I spent maybe an hour creating this image to be a background for a powerpoint presentation. I’m kinda proud of how it turned out. It’s also interesting to realize just how comfortable I’m getting with photoshop.
I like Moby, and enjoy reading his blog except for when he’s being political, as he has been for the last, oh, nine months or so–he’s extremely liberal, to the extent of (and, in some ways, beyond) “OH EM GEE …
Last weekend I volunteered as a conference associate for Meaningful Play. In general, it was a positive experience for attendees–personally, I heard several rave reviews. And honestly, as one of the registration desk people, things could have gone a lot …
I just saw a Facebook ad for “custom term papers” (not linked, but you can find 212,000 results by googling that term). Basically, you hand them your research and they churn out an actual report. And they’ll even write your …
From the Lansing State Journal: Man, 24, Shot Dead in South Lansing What gets me isn’t that there was yet another murder in Lansing, though of course that’s horrible, or even that, as always, the victim was “such a nice …
I’ve started messing around in Photoshop a bit just to see what I can teach myself. (That, and there was a class assignment using it once.) For lack of any better topics to write about, and perhaps to motivate myself …
In high school, I had an obese teacher who claimed to have once been the cheerleading coach for Madonna, who had graduated from my high school some 20 years previously. For years I wrote her off as a compulsive liar–it …
Source: xkcd.com